This big red has a dense core of crushed plum, hoisin sauce, fig
reduction and blueberry and blackberry fruit flavors, all wound with
bittersweet cocoa and anise notes on the muscular finish. Needs to
stretch out a bit in the cellar. Drink now through 2011. 500 cases
imported. - WS 91 points
A brilliant offering (15.2% natural alcohol), the 2009 Cotes du
Rhone-Villages Cuvee des Galets, all from the renowned windswept Plan de
Dieu northeast of Chateauneuf du Pape, exhibits notes of kirsch
liqueur, loamy, sandy soil, underbrush, and pepper. This dense, medium
to full-bodied, richly fruity wine builds incrementally in the mouth,
revealing lots of glycerin in its complex, evolved, impressively endowed
style. Drink it over the next 3-4 years. I have been following
this estate for a decade and except for a few hiccups in 2002 and 2003,
it has consistently turned out fine wines. Moreover, since Philippe
Cambie was brought in as the consulting oenologist, it has become even
more reliable. - WA 90 points
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